constitutional law

From ConLaw Blog: With President Obama making news this week proclaiming his personal support for same-sex marriage, after an extensive “evolution,” it’s a good time to take a look at scholarship on the constitutional arguments. Obama specifically mentioned same-sex couples “raising kids together.” But one of the more odd –…

From NYT: Our Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a…

From Constitutional Law Prof Blog: [Yesterday] the early morning police eviction of protesters from NYC’s Zuccotti park by police officers was quickly followed by a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the city from evicting protesters from the park and enforcing rules prohibiting tents and other property. The hearing on that order,…

From NYT: The justices agreed to hear a challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, setting the stage for a ruling in the midst of the 2012 presidential race. ThinkProgress has a nice round-up on the legal basis/constitutionality of the PPACA: [The Constitution] provides that the United States may…

From The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution: It has been suggested, with growing frequency, that the United States may be losing its influence over constitutionalism in other countries because it is increasingly out of sync with an evolving global consensus on issues of human rights. Little is known…